We're Here - Cross Stitch Pattern

Here's an excerpt from John's The Anthropocene Reviewed about this phrase, you can listen to him read the whole review of Auld Lang Syne here.

"In her public appearances, Amy would sometimes use that recursive lament of British soldiers and transform it without ever changing the tune or the words. She would ask an audience to sing that song with her: "We're here because we're here because we're here because wete here?" And although it's a profoundly nihilistic song written about the modernist hell of repetition, singing this song with Amy, I could always see the hope in it. It became a statement that we are here meaning that we are together, and not alone. And it's also a statement that we are, that we exist. And it's a statement that we are here, that a series of astonishing unlikelihoods has made us possible and here possible. We might never know why we are here, but we can still proclaim in hope that we are here. I don't think such hope is foolish or idealistic or misguided.

We live in hope-that life will get better, and more importantly that it will go on, that love will survive even though we will not. And between now and then, we are here because we're here because we're here because we're here."

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Size: 

42 x 50 stitches 

14 count - 3 x 3 5/8 inches (recommended)

16 count - 2 5/8 x 3 1/8 inches 

18 count - 2 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches

Shown on 28 count fabric (which is like 14) in 3" hoop.

Colors: 

DMC 310, 3046, 3328, 3726

PDF includes full-page pattern with white background.